04-02-2017, 07:19 PM
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The same argument was used by Montemurro and Zanette in the paper You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Montemurro and Zanette also argue with respect to the context dependency: "Words that are related by their semantic contents tend to co-occur along the text." [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. In this paper they come to the conclusion that this observation "suggests the presence of a genuine linguistic structure" for the VMS. Unfortunately, the level of context dependency for the VMS is on a higher level than expected for a linguistic system. Therefore, context dependency alone is not enough to allow the conclusion that the patterns found must be the result of a genuine linguistic structure [see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.].
In fact co-occurence is normal for a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. [see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. Therefore this property only demonstrates that the VMS is also using a self referencing system. Also the autocopying hypotheses results in a self referencing system: "The connection between consecutive lines and between similar glyph groups exists because the text is a copy of itself. The statistical features of the text can be explained by the hypothesis that the author of the VMS was using the described self-referencing system to generate the text. This text generation mechanism also explains the observation that for common glyph groups almost all spelling variations occur. The use of different spelling variations is no coincidence, because the scribe was generating the text by varying glyph groups already written." [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]
Quote:This seems to be a normal property of meaningful texts.
The same argument was used by Montemurro and Zanette in the paper You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Montemurro and Zanette also argue with respect to the context dependency: "Words that are related by their semantic contents tend to co-occur along the text." [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. In this paper they come to the conclusion that this observation "suggests the presence of a genuine linguistic structure" for the VMS. Unfortunately, the level of context dependency for the VMS is on a higher level than expected for a linguistic system. Therefore, context dependency alone is not enough to allow the conclusion that the patterns found must be the result of a genuine linguistic structure [see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.].
In fact co-occurence is normal for a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. [see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. Therefore this property only demonstrates that the VMS is also using a self referencing system. Also the autocopying hypotheses results in a self referencing system: "The connection between consecutive lines and between similar glyph groups exists because the text is a copy of itself. The statistical features of the text can be explained by the hypothesis that the author of the VMS was using the described self-referencing system to generate the text. This text generation mechanism also explains the observation that for common glyph groups almost all spelling variations occur. The use of different spelling variations is no coincidence, because the scribe was generating the text by varying glyph groups already written." [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]